Igor Anatolyevich Bobrin (Russian: Игорь Анатольевич Бобрин) (born 14 November 1953, Leningrad

Leningrad

Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...

) is a former Soviet competitive figure skater. He is the 1981 European Champion

European Figure Skating Championships

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 and World bronze medalist

1981 World Figure Skating Championships

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. He was the 1978, 1980-1982 Soviet National Champion and placed 6th at the 1980 Winter Olympics

1980 Winter Olympics

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. Following his competitive career, he created his own ice theater. He currently skates with Moscow Stars On Ice ice theater and works as a coach and choreographer. He was first married to Natalia Ovchinnikova, with whom he has a son, Maxim, born in 1977. In 1983 he married the future Olympic champion in ice dancing

Ice dancing

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, Natalia Bestemianova

Natalia Bestemianova

Natalia Filimonovna Bestemianova is a Russian ice dancer who represented the Soviet Union in her competitive career...

.

During his competitive career, Bobrin was known for being a particularly creative free skater. He invented an unusual horizontal-twisting jump sometimes called a "log jump" or "Bobrinover". At one of his first international competitions, the 1972 Winter Universiade

1972 Winter Universiade

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, a contemporary review noted that even the pros were puzzled by the jump, which was described as "somewhat like an Arabian cartwheel, only performed going straight ahead". He was coached by Igor Moskvin

Igor Moskvin

Igor Borisovich Moskvin is a former Soviet pair skater, Soviet and Russian figure skating coach, Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coach of the USSR. He was the flag bearer for the Soviet Union at the 1964 Winter Olympics...

.

Results

Event	1971-72	1972-73	1973-74	1974-75	1975-76	1976-77	1977-78	1978-79	1979-80	1980-81	1981-82	1982-83
Winter Olympics Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games is a sporting event, which occurs every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating...									6th
World Championships World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...					8th		5th	10th	7th	3rd	7th
European Championships European Figure Skating Championships The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition in which figure skaters compete for the title of European Champion...							4th	5th	4th	1st	3rd
Soviet Championships Soviet Figure Skating Championships The Soviet Figure Skating Championships were a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of the Soviet Union...	3rd	4th	4th	6th	3rd	4th	1st	2nd	1st	1st	1st	2nd
Prize of Moscow News Prize of Moscow News The Prize of Moscow News , also known as the Moscow Skate, Nouvelles de Moscou, and the Moscow News Trophy, was an international, senior-level figure skating competition held in the former Soviet Union from 1966 to 1990...			3rd	5th		4th	3rd	2nd	1st	1st	2nd
Winter Universiade	10th

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